In your neck of the woods...What do you say?

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  • MuscleAndMascara
    MuscleAndMascara Posts: 1,259 Member
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    In Arizona

    Subs, Soda and what the heck are those??
  • Megan101792
    Megan101792 Posts: 3,194 Member
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    Do you say Pop or Soda?
    Hoagies or Subs?
    Lightening bugs or fireflies?

    I'm from Ohio but now in PA and I say Pop, subs, and lightening bugs.

    Tell me what you say and where you are from and add in new words too!

    Iowa here. We say the same.
  • aedreana
    aedreana Posts: 979 Member
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    And in the South we call it not a Coke, not a Coca-Cola, but a Coke Cola.
  • Alice_in_VVonderland
    Alice_in_VVonderland Posts: 67 Member
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    Originally from St. Louis:

    Soda
    Subs
    I've used Lightning Bug and Firefly interchangeably.*

    *Note: I'm now in the Pacific Northwest and don't use either term because we don't seem to have these bugs here. It makes me sad. Did you know their eggs glow? :smile:
  • MaaKeMeThinn3r
    MaaKeMeThinn3r Posts: 135 Member
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    Soda, Sub, and Fireflies!! New Mexico native!!
  • shireeniebeanie
    shireeniebeanie Posts: 293 Member
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    Soda, Sub, and Fireflies!! New Mexico native!!

    Ditto from New England.
  • fatmanintransition
    fatmanintransition Posts: 841 Member
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    West Michigan native: Pop, Subs, and Fireflies
  • kathyschance
    kathyschance Posts: 10
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    Northeast Delaware/Philadelphia metro area....

    All the signs on the sandwich shops say "Subs" but a lot of people around here call them Hoagies too. And when a sign on a shop says "Steaks", they aren't talking about New York Strip.....they're talking about thin sliced beef in a sandwich.

    Soda....NEVER "pop"

    I've heard people call them both fireflies and lightning bugs around here.
  • jboccio90
    jboccio90 Posts: 644 Member
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    Florida

    soda

    sandwich or sub

    we dont have fireflies/lightening bugs so im not sure.
  • NYactor1
    NYactor1 Posts: 9,642 Member
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    In upstate NY, ppl call creeks...'criks'. I don't get it.
  • elv1ra
    elv1ra Posts: 146 Member
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    im in alberta canada

    we say pop and subs. i dont know about the bugs, ive never seen one.

    we also call winter knit hats "toques" i think you americans call them "beanies"?

    we call the meals breakfast, lunch, and dinner, but i was born on the other side of the country where the meals were breakfast , dinner, and supper.

    where i was born we called backpacks bookbags, and pencil crayons "Leds". i have no idea why.
  • lna_1981
    lna_1981 Posts: 696 Member
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    Pop, subs, lightening bugs

    I'm in Missouri
  • FrozenSongBird
    FrozenSongBird Posts: 3,892 Member
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    Alaska - Soda, Subs, FireFlys
  • ValGogo
    ValGogo Posts: 2,168 Member
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    Soda, heroes, fireflies, subway, inSURance.
    New Yawk baby!
  • aqualeo1
    aqualeo1 Posts: 331 Member
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    Soda hoagies & lightening bugs!
    Northeastern pa
  • just4nessa
    just4nessa Posts: 459 Member
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    Growing up in Brooklyn it was soda, heroes and lightning bugs, moved to NJ and it was soda, subs and fireflies. Live in Upstate NY now, still soda and subs but I haven't seen a lightening bug/firefly so I don't know what they call 'em up here.
  • JulieGirl58
    JulieGirl58 Posts: 158 Member
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    I lived in Oregon most of my life but now live in Utah. I have always said Soda and Subs and I have never seen a lightening bug or firefly. Or even a cockroach. I've always said davenport, not sofa or couch. Utahans speak rather strangely and have terrible grammar so I have tried not to pick up any bad habits. But occasionally I speak in the vernacular to my embarrassment.
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,741 Member
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    I'm in Missouri and most people in my area call it "pop" but I have always said soda, as do my family & most friends. It's never hoagie, always sub (older folks usually lengthen it to "sub sandwich"), and lightning bug.

    I was probably 25 before I knew lightning bug = firefly. ha! I thought fireflies were dragonflies or something.

    Lightening for lightning is one of my pet peeves. I drive past a business sometimes called "Lightening Lube" and wonder if they are in there doing foils of blonde highlights on the side ;-)

    A lot of older people in my area pronounce washer like "warsher". The Conoco gas station we say "CON-uh-ko" and I know some people from the Northeast who say it a bit like "Koh-NO-ko", it sounds like a Japanese restaurant that way (to my ears).
  • jmc0806
    jmc0806 Posts: 1,444 Member
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    Soda, subs, fireflies

    I'm from NH, so we also use "wicked"
  • BAFilek
    BAFilek Posts: 139 Member
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    Minnesota. soda, sub or hoagie, fireflies and sofa. No y'all, we say 'you guys'.

    Minnesota born and bread - pop, sub firefly!! Ya, you betcha! :drinker:

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